MoE 09/10 - 6h of Westhill

Quali: 10th, Race: 10th

Here's how it looks like when everything is going downhill.

The worst weekend we ever had started with the worst qualifying. I usually am the one who starts practicing first so I'm the best for first quali session. That's how we did if for r1 and r2, but as this is my slowest track we thought to give Karolis the first quali as well as second. When he failed to post good time in first we kept our hopes high for second round, but then he failed again and this really killed our moral. Starting 10th on this track is a bad idea.

As per usual I'm the one who's starting the race, but I was too edgy to pass everyone that I made a lot of mistakes in first laps and lost about half a minute on recovering from two unlucky spins. BTW in 2nd spin I wasn't really able to see what you can see with this camera, as driver is positioned more to the left.

Then I don't know what I was looking for on my keyboard but I accidentally pressed the key which downshifted a gear. I reacted quickly and shifted it up, but still damage to the engine was done and we could do nothing to fix it. For all of those who didn't believe us when we were talking about that, here's a proof. This cost us about 0.2sec per lap for the rest of the race (over 200 laps).

After that I managed to get my head together and calculate every pass to make it look easy. Something I should have done right away, but hey we all learn from mistakes.

I think I finished my stint 7th, to give the car over to Karolis. He drove two stints and gained few more spots (he also had one spin) and gave the car to Leo. Leo messed up his best ever chance to show what he can do with blocking massages twice and therefor earned two DT penalties. But our pace was that good that we were still fighting for 3rd with engine damage and all of the spins and penalties. We made a small mistake in calculating fuel for last stint and Leo failed to see that it wouldn't be enough, so we stopped in middle of last lap. We would have finished 5th, but to make bad day even worse admins gave us a lap penalty for this (shift+s) as LFS spectated us. We of course didn't know this, as it never happened to anyone so we didn't teleport to pits and finish the lap.

Just to make things clear Leo wasn't let go because of this.